Jean-Philippe Rameau
Les Indes galantes whoops it up at Grange Festival
*** The audience showed itself very enthusiastic for director Bintou Dembélé‘s dance troupe’s hip-hop, whooping, and jumping, swirling and twirling, at the curtain call of this first UK staging of Rameau’s Les Indes galantes. This ‘choreographed concert’ performance has developed from a staged production at the Opéra de Paris back in 2019 and has whooped…
Contemporary sensibilities have to be suspended for Platée, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Garsington Opera
*** Garsington’s updating and reworking of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s comedy dance opera Platée solves the Platée problem; it definitely needs something to lift it from far too cruel and nasty a tale for contemporary audiences. The story revolves around an ugly and deluded swamp nymph, Platée, tricked into thinking the philandering god Jupiter has fallen for…